Is cruelty the point? Can this all be blamed on sheer incompetence? General indifference? Selfishness? Here at the Fair and Balanced™ www.bblloobb.com, you decide!
boo.
[Article] The United States Is Not A Well Society
“With a few notable exceptions—such as during the 1918 influenza pandemic, World War II and the HIV crisis—life expectancy in the U.S. has had gradual upward trajectory over the past century. But that progress has steeply reversed in the past two years as COVID and other tragedies have cut millions of lives short.”
“COVID deaths drove much of the decline as the country grappled with the world’s worst pandemic in a century. But unintentional injuries—largely driven by drug overdoses—also played a significant role, the data show. Increases in deaths from heart disease, chronic liver disease and suicide also contributed.”
The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years’ Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy, Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-just-lost-26-years-worth-of-progress-on-life-expectancy/
[Articles/etc.] Climate Quick Links
Mississippi at “near historic lows”.
Saltwater is moving up the Mississippi River., NPR, https://www.npr.org/2022/10/27/1131452623/saltwater-mississippi-river-drought-gulf-of-mexico
Billion dollar weather disasters are increasing
Ian is 15th billion-dollar disaster this year so far, NOAA, https://www.noaa.gov/news/ian-is-15th-billion-dollar-disaster-year-so-far
Future generations will wonder what the fuck we were doing: “no credible pathway to 1.5C”
Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/climate-crisis-un-pathway-1-5-c
Bonus Rant About Lawns
A rant about lawns in America, Volts, https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-rant-about-lawns-in-america
[Article] Feel Like I’m Stating Something Beyond Obvious, But Tucker Carlson Is a Racist
“And I’ll give you one example, which we can come back to. This idea of replacement theory – you’ve probably heard about it. And even if you’re not paying much attention to cable news, you’ll probably recall that last spring he got in some hot water for saying, yeah, the elites in this country are trying to replace Americans with obedient people from what he called the Third World.
Now, that is a direct borrowing of language and concept from white nationalists and not just conservatives. I’m talking about people who are neo-Nazis, open nativists, white nationalists, people who get together in dark corners of the internet, mostly, and propound theories about how a cabal of elites – sometimes Jews, sometimes broader – are trying to replace Americans. Now, that theme hadn’t just popped up on the show last April. A version of it has been present in 400-plus episodes of the show.”
Has Tucker Carlson created the most racist show in the history of cable news?, NPR, https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098488908/has-tucker-carlson-created-the-most-racist-show-in-the-history-of-cable-news
Carlson is not directing his audience to commit murder. But he is spreading an ideology that lends itself naturally to murderous tendencies and has accordingly spawned a violent wing. White nationalists see Carlson as their champion, and so too does the vast majority of the conservative movement. Carlson, like Trump, serves as a bridge between the Republican Party and a movement once seen as too extreme and marginal for the party to touch. The defenses of Carlson will ensure that the power of white nationalism continues to grow, along with its body count.
Yes, Tucker Carlson Shares Blame for the Buffalo Supermarket Attack: The white nationalist’s conservative allies mount an unconvincing defense., Intelligencer, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/tucker-carlson-buffalo-supermarket-attack-great-replacement-white-nationalism.html
[Article] TheRentIsTooDamnHighGuy.gif
There is absolutely zero justice in housing in America. But, hey, at least the dividends on the REITs that rich people have stock in keep increasing each quarter.
“In one neighborhood in Seattle, ProPublica found, 70% of apartments were overseen by just 10 property managers, every single one of which used pricing software sold by RealPage.
For tenants, the system upends the practice of negotiating with apartment building staff. RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money.
One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing.“
How a Secret Rent Algorithm Pushes Rents Higher, ProPublic, https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent
[Video] I’ve heard of Free Lunch, but Free Parking??
Does that make sense? I don’t think that makes sense. Oh well. Watch the video to learn about Parking Minimums and why your city is just a sea of soul-destroying parking lots.
See the Parking Situation in an American city with a population of half a million.
Something to be truly scared about. boo.
[Bonus] “We are unsafe, help.” “No.” “Okay, we’ll do it ourselves.” “Absolutely not.”
The end.